BERLIN – World heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko has brushed off the latest extreme efforts by USA boxer Shannon Briggs on Wednesday to earn a shot at the Ukrainian’s belts. …read more Source: Bangkok...

November 13, 2014 3:12 AMTHE HAGUE (AFP) – Dutch forensic experts recovered further human remains at the crash site of downed Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, but said they could not yet start salvaging the wreckage. …read more Source: The Straits...

BERLIN (Reuters) – Hungary will stand by its European Union allies’ decision to impose sanctions on Russia over Ukraine but will need help to safeguarding energy supplies put at risk by the dispute, its foreign minister said on Wednesday. …read more Source: The...

MOSCOW (AP) – A Russian soccer coach who said he would not sign dark-skinned players received a five-game ban Wednesday for racial discrimination.The punishment is the strongest sanction for racism handed out to a player or coach by the Russian Football Union.Igor Gamula told Russian journalists last month that FC Rostov had enough...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union foreign ministers are unlikely to step up sanctions against Russia next week over its involvement in destabilising eastern Ukraine, EU diplomats said on Wednesday. …read more Source: The...

KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukraine said on Wednesday it was redeploying troops in the east because of fears separatists will launch a new military offensive, despite Russia’s denials it has sent troops to reinforce the rebels. …read more Source: The...

KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine will be forced to buy coal from Russia to get through the winter, a serious setback to the country’s efforts to lessen energy dependence on its powerful neighbour, Ukrainian Energy Minister Yuri Prodan said on Wednesday. …read more Source: The...

ROME – Italy’s supreme court has ruled that a baby born to a surrogate mother in Ukraine cannot be kept by the Italian couple who paid for it and must be put up for adoption, Italian media reports said Wednesday.Under Italian law, the person who gives birth to a baby is legally its mother, and the use of surrogate mothers is...

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian army is not present in eastern Ukraine, Interfax news agency quoted a defence ministry spokesman as saying on Wednesday in response to NATO accusations that military convoys have been crossing from Russia into Ukraine in the past few days. …read more Source: The...